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The briefing should be US Navy crews, driving agile, high-speed ships like McCain and Fitzgerald, which can accelerate rapidly and turn in short radii
being told to beware of the dangers of plodding sea cows like Alnic MC,
a slow medium tanker that plods along at 1/3 the destroyers’ max speed, and needs several miles to turn, and is normally only a hazard to sailboats.

Dunce caps, dark glasses, and white-tipped canes for the Navy crew optional.
But clearly, the Seventh Fleet has recruited blind people for radar operators and watch-standing bridge lookouts.

Commissioning the Diversity-class destroyers USS Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Jose Feliciano would seem to be the obvious next step. With no guns, onboard childcare, hot tubs, a 50% female crew, mandatory LGBTEIEIO crew staffing, no radar, and no portholes on the bridge, but an extra-wide ramp in the stern for taking on gender-fluid seamen.

Yes, four. It wasn’t all about one ship, crew or commander.
One started the engagement, and went back for a second round.
The Navy aircrews fought well.
Be alert.
It does well to be reminded of courage in the face of great odds.

It also showed that an enemy’s expectations can be used against him. The Japanese never considered small destroyers a threat to their capital ships, so the shells the Japanese fired were intended for use against other capital ships. A shell designed to penetrate multiple decks of heavy armor before exploding, when fired at a light destroyer just punches all the way through and wastes its explosive power in the ocean.

Aesop, that there was one of the funniest posts I’ve seen. Surely, these guys have some binoculars on board and some lookouts they could post. Then I remembered the US Navy, and their running battles with German U-boats before we were at war with them. I think the Chinese are giving lessons now, about wars on the cheap. (As in bribe a sea captain of and ocean going tanker how to knock off some US Navy assets, and make them all look stupid in one easy lessson)

When I stop and consider these “collisions” and other .mil gaffes, I do not get upset at all. If you, as I view the Leviathan as the enemy, then anything, and I mean anything, which throws a monkey wrench into their NWO agenda is okay. The American Military has demonstrated they are perfectly comfortable with wiping their ass with the BOR and making war on their own citizens. Our history is replete with examples.
And do not lecture me about the loss of life. Even peacetime service can be hazardous. No one held a gun at anyone’s head and told them to enlist. In 1969 I had four choices: enlist, get drafted, flee Canada, or go to prison. I am all out of empathy for ANYONE who prostitutes himself/herself for Mordor-On-The-Potomac.

Schoolboy: I enlisted in the Army after college (1969) with the intention of becoming an officer. I was 18 weeks into Infantry OCS at Benning’s School For Boys(OCS Class 19-70, 50th Company, 5th Student Battalion), when Nixon decided to wind things down. I was cashiered out as an E-4 along with about 1100 other candidates. I ended up a MP at Fort Hood, TX. That is how I became interested in a career in police work.
I do not regret my service. It matured me immensely. My biggest epiphany came in 1979, when I went back in as an active reservist and saw how much my Army had deteriorated(Enlisted Women, for God’s sakes!). I stuck that tour out for 7 years and then went permanently inactive. Given the state of .mil today, I would counsel any young man or woman not to do it unless they are career-tracked into a medical, dental, mechanical, or electronic MOS.

Our history is replete with examples.
Illustrate.
I’m a prodigious student of history, and I have no idea what you think you’re talking about.
The Whiskey Rebellion. Two centuries ago.
The Civil War. Which, big shock, was a civil war. And an example from only 150 years ago.
The Bonus March.
Waco.
And…?
That’s a bit shy of “replete”. More like “if you go into Twister-esque contortions, you could maybe find a couple of instances, and only one in living memory for 99.9% of the country.”

You want to stop talking about the military per se and move into CIA/NSA territory, the domain of our would-be civilian overlords’ depredations on the BoR, go on ahead.

You’re aware, right, that the BoR doesn’t apply in any way to the military, only the UCMJ does?